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Attribute Ratings
- Amazon CloudWatch is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
Amazon CloudWatch
89%
40 Ratings
7.0
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
70%
1 Rating
Usability
Amazon CloudWatch
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
70%
1 Rating
Support Rating
8.0
Amazon CloudWatch
80%
14 Ratings
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
70%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon CloudWatch
Cloud watch is great and essential if you decide to invest in AWS and have any need to monitor the health of all aspects of your VPC resources, or at the organizational level (multiple accounts). Another benefit of the service is constant upgrades at no additional costs; the software evolves to develop modules and interface improvements. For first-time users in AWS, this is going to take a bit to understand, so the learning curve to this metrics environment can seem overwhelming at first glance/use.
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
This software is suited for a smaller organization with a small datacenter that uses mainly HP hardware. Once the environment gets larger it would pay to move to some of their paid for products
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Pros
Amazon CloudWatch
- It provides lot many out of the box dashboard to observe the health and usage of your cloud deployments. Few examples are CPU usage, Disk read/write, Network in/out etc.
- It is possible to stream CloudWatch log data to Amazon Elasticsearch to process them almost real time.
- If you have setup your code pipeline and wants to see the status, CloudWatch really helps. It can trigger lambda function when certain cloudWatch event happens and lambda can store the data to S3 or Athena which Quicksight can represent.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
- HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at scanning for devices and adding them for monitoring is almost effortless.
- HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at detecting most HP hardware and integrating with local management software.
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Cons
Amazon CloudWatch
- Memory metrics on EC2 are not available on CloudWatch. Depending on workloads if we need visibility on memory metrics we use Solarwinds Orion with the agent installed. For scalable workloads, this involves customization of images being used.
- Visualization out of the box. But this can easily be addressed with other solutions such as Grafana.
- By design, this is only used for AWS workloads so depending on your environment cannot be used as an all in one solution for your monitoring.

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employeesHPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
- I think some of the areas that HP Systems Insight Manager can improve is non HP hardware.
- This software also sometimes struggles handling larger environments.
- This software also has issues managing environments that aren't set up perfectly.
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon CloudWatch
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,012 per canary run
Amazon CloudWatch Editions & Modules
Edition
First 10,000 Metrics | $0.301 |
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Next 240,000 Metrics | $0.101 |
Next 750,000 Metrics | $0.051 |
Over 1,000,000 Metrics | $0.021 |
Dashboard | $3.002 |
Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec) | $0.103 |
Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec) | $0.303 |
Alarm - Composite | $0.504 |
Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion) | $0.505 |
Logs - Store (Archival) | $0.035 |
Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries) | $0.0056 |
Events - Custom | $1.007 |
Events - Cross-account | $1.007 |
Contributor Insights | $0.508 |
Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events | $0.029 |
Canaries | $0.001210 |
CloudWatch Evidently - Events | $511 |
CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units | $7.5012 |
CloudWatch RUM | $113 |
- per month
- per month per dashboard
- per month per alarm metric
- per month per alarm
- per GB
- per GB of data scanned
- per million events
- per month per rule
- per month per one million log events that match the rule
- per canary run
- per 1 million events
- per 1 million analysis units
- per 100k events
Additional Pricing Details
With Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. You will be charged at the end of the month for your usage.HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Amazon CloudWatch
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 7.0
Based on 1 answer
For basic functions it's very easy to set up and use. However, for more advanced functions it takes a lot of time to figure out its quirks
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Support Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch 8.0
Based on 14 answers
Support is effective, and we were able to get any problems that we couldn't get solved through community discussion forums solved for us by the AWS support team. For example, we were assisted in one instance where we were not sure about the best metrics to use in order to optimize an auto-scaling group on EC2. The support team was able to look at our metrics and give a useful recommendation on which metrics to use.
Lead Consultant - Technology
VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 7.0
Based on 2 answers
It's good for small organizations that use HP branded equipment
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is efficient, reliable and has a high speed response as compared to its competitors and it maximizes an application's life at the same time giving you the best load balance and storage, the services that Amazon CloudWatch provides are way better and cheaper for the prices attached to them.
Network Engineer
JohannesburgInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
Some of the other products I use for system management are HP SiteScope and SolarWinds Orion NPM and APM. SiteScope is another good HP product but it isn't very cost effective to use for general system management. It's good for performing complex alerting and monitoring. SolarWinds makes a great product but it is better geared for gathering statistics and performance data real-time and historically. Again the cost of this product makes it ineffective for general system monitoring.
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon CloudWatch
- We were able to set up log streaming, retention, and simple downtime alerts within a few hours, having no prior experience with CloudWatch, freeing up our engineers to focus on more important business goals.
- CloudWatch log groups have made it relatively easy to detect and diagnose issues in production by allowing us to aggregate logs across servers, correlate failures, isolate misbehaving servers, etc. Thanks to CloudWatch, we are generally able to identify, understand and mitigate most production fires within 10-15 minutes.
- Choosing CloudWatch to manage log aggregation has saved us quite a bit of time and money over the past year. Generally, 3rd-party log aggregation solutions tend to get quite expensive unless you self-host, in which case you typically need to spend a fair amount of time setting up, maintaining, and monitoring these services.
Founder
finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
- Since this software is free if you buy HP hardware the cost is nothing which is nice for cash strapped businesses.
- This software has a somewhat difficult time handling large environments where systems are not configured perfectly for this software.
- I would always recommend having multiples of this software installed for redundancy because generally unless it and the environment is properly configured it can require maintenance.
Senior System Engineer
Sandata TechnologiesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees